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Detailed map of the Jesuit Regions of South America, based upon the observations of the Jesuit Missionaries.

The map would appear to be an update of Juan Francisco D'Avila's rare map of the Jesuit Provinces, first issued in 1726. The map includes a number of improvements and the addition of more detail in areas largely ignored by D'Avila. As noted by one observer,

In 1733, D'anville, in view of the two Maps engraved by J. Petroschi (1722 and 1732) and of that previously engraved by G. Coeck (X Vllth D'Anville, century), that is, in view of the three 1733 Maps sent and dedicated to three different General Prefects of the Society of Jesus at Rome by the Jesuits of the Province of Paraguay, composed his Carte du Paraguay, appended to Vol. XXI. of the Lettres Edifiantes Curiuses ecrites des Missions Etrangers . . . Father Dr Halda, the editor of the Letters, says in the Preface: " In order to satisfy you compleiely regarding these Missions, I have thought it my duty, Reverend Fathers, to give you an accurate Map of that vast tract of land, over which they are scattered : M. Danville, Geographer in ordinary to the King, has drawn it expressly with very great care, from various Maps, and, among others, from a quite recent one, given by the Missionaries of Paraguay themselves. You will find at the end of the Report which has come from Spain, an address in which the Author of this Map makes a sort of analysis of it, in order that you may judge for yourselves how accurately it has been worked out."

Statement Submitted by the United States of Brazil to the President of the United States of America As Abitrator Under The Provisions of the Treaty Concluded September 7, 1899 Between Brazil and the Argentine Republic, 1899 (p. 133).